Santelli earns national writing honor

Posted August 18, 2005

(Portland, Ore.)—Tamara Santelli, a third-year law student at Lewis & Clark Law School, earned a top writing honor from the Pacific Legal Foundation.

The foundation’s sixth annual Program for Judicial Awareness Writing competition awarded three cash prizes for writing excellence; Santelli was a second runner up, earning $1,500 for her essay titled “ The Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause Approach Post-Morrison: Is the ESA’s Regulation of Non-Commercial Actors Constitutional?”

The annual writing competition is open to students currently enrolled in law school or graduate school in the United States, and essays address one of three questions on an area of the law within the foundation’s mission, incorporating pertinent case law and applicable academic literature. This year’s questions focused on property rights and the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act. The foundation cash prizes totaled $9,500.

The competition is part of the foundation’s Program for Judicial Awareness, founded in 1999, which promotes the publication of works of legal academic scholarship that advance an understanding of key constitutional issues before the nation’s courts. The foundation will work with the winners to have the essays published in legal and academic journals.

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